Aero Mirrors

Never have been a fan of the flag mirrors and came across these 911 aero
mirrors on Ebay for $250, seemed like a deal at the time. For some reason
Porsche have put up the price of the aero mirror kit to stupid prices and
evidently the kit doesn't include the glass either ... last time I looked the
manual mirror kit was ~$325 and the electric ~$530 and that is the cheaper end
of the market.

Useful excerpt below from the 928 forums on Rennlist:

the flag mirror has a rectangular base , the
Aero has an " ovalish " base which
DOES NOT completely cover the footprint of the rectangular base . So if the
door is repainted with the flag mirrors not removed there will be a visible
paint line showing mostly above and in front of the new base . The flag
mirrors were used on 911 and 944 as well as 928 BUT have different mounting bases
to match the contour of the door skin . The Aero
mirrors were also used on various Porsche cars BUT different bases
. It was for a while quite popular in L A for the "bad guys" to find
a parked Porsche with Aero mirrors and use an
allen wrench to remove the mirrors (takes a couple minutes) then sell them at
the next swap meet for $250 a set or so . E-bay has made the trip to the swap
meet unnecesary . The correct 928/GTS bases for
the Aero mirrors are about $50 each part 928
731 241 00 and 928 731 242 00 .

Well the mirrors arrived O:K, they have a few scratch's but then they are
going to be repainted, the wife mentioned that the mirrors were a really nice
color and maybe I should get the car done to match .... right. If only a change
of color was that simple.

Dismantling the mirrors is interesting, I need to remove the base and replace
with the correct 928 item, well VolumeII Issue I of the 928 Forum have a great
writeup on this conversion. However the part about assembling is just plain
impossible ... then someone gave me this link.
Invaluable. Using the tool mentioned it took me 10mins to dismantle both
mirrors, importantly this same method can be used for assembly.

The mirrors I have have no memory, I think I can live with that, although I
may be able to re-use the motors from my old mirrors will have to see.

Here
are the two mirrors disassembled

This
is the magic tool

Next to get them painted.

So the old flag mirror motors can be re-used in the aero mirrors, I am pretty
sure I can re-use some of the electrical connectors too, won't be sure if that's
possible till I refit.

Here
are the two electrical connectors, for the male pins you can use a generic
extraction tool as the write-ups mention, for the females you are having a
laugh, there is no way to get them out of the connector. Lousy design for sure.To
remove I had to use the dremel, this way I managed to salvage the electrical
connectors.

All removed, and good riddance.

A
pic of the passenger side before it received more or the same.

4/17/05

OK the refit went pretty easy, as per usual could do it way faster the 2nd
time, I re-used the flag mirror wiring harness and motors ... you need to get a
hold of the wiring tool to remove the contact pins from the connector housing. www.928gt.com
has them.

Above are some shots of the bases being assembled on the bench, mirror
housing to base is the reverse of the dis-assemble procedure but being very
careful not to scratch the paint !!! The gasket was a challenge, you can see
above I tried to pre-tape before fitment, this did not work. Only way to get it
on is to put on the car, tighten mirror loosely and get top of the gasket in
place, gradually pull the lower part of the gasket into place .. being careful
not to scratch the paint !!